On Sunday, December 17th, 1995 - Terry Russell wrote:
 
TR> stated that they would do a big marketing blitz for the Jaguar right 
TR> at Christmas time. One of the local retailers and myself were talking 
TR> yesterday about this. What happened to the big blitz? According to 
 
I guess they ran out of money or changed their minds.  It never arrived
here - or died off shortly after Thanksgiving.
 
TR> several sources Sega's recent ad blitz for the month on Dec alone ran 
TR> 165 million I think was the qouted price. Now Atari said they would 
 
Yeah, these guys can spend more money on ads in a few months than Atari
even has in the bank.
 
TR> spend a good portion of the 50 million they had on advertisement. for 
 
Perhaps they're going to spend that money instead on getting back into
computers.  Might be for the best: how about a $500 Falcon/Jaguar
computer with TCP/IP and a Java-ready Web browser in ROM?  :-)
Some industry pundits were talking about $500 computers to get "the
masses" into the Web.
 
TR> Nov/Dec is this it? I mean I saw perhaps 6 Jag commecials since Nov 
 
I think I remember seeing exactly three Atari commercial in that time
frame, and NONE lately.
 
TR> 1st. I must see 10 to 15 Sega commecials daily and the same or more 
TR> from Sony. Is Atari really spending any money on a blitz? Hmm maybe 
 
Sega commercials have just started to over run the Sony ads in the last
3-4 days.  Even so, it really looks like the Sony is the better product
and that Sega is heading for trouble.  Which is better in your opinion?
 
Gee, it would sure have been nice to have seen some of the Jaguar
graphics on TV to have in comparison!  :-/
 
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